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This Week’s Guest: Jessica Spiegel of the Boots N’ All Network. This Week’s Stories

Gaming the luggage system
Slave Village Opens up at National Park
BootsnAll – “How I Travel” series
Mail: Air Passengers Who Refuse A Full Body Scan To Be Barred From Flights
CNN: The $27,000 [...]

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This Week’s Guest: Kim Mance of TBEX and Galavanting.

Couches in coach: Air New Zealand plans lie-flat seats – USATODAY.com
Sky Couch In Coach: Air New Zealand Designs Flip-Up Cushion To Make Bed – The Middle Seat Terminal – WSJ
Employees to Warm up Your Hotel Bed by [...]

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This Week’s Guest: Marylin Terrell @Marilyn_Res the Chief Researcher for National Geographic Traveler magazine and Intelligent Travel Blog.

Topics Discussed:

Haiti dominated the news so much, it’s hard to think of anything else.
Here’s an interesting angle, the story about the cruise line that continued its plan to dock in Haiti with vacationers. Pros [...]

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This Week’s Guest:
David Lytle – Editorial Director for Frommers.com
Robert Reid – US Travel Editor for Lonely Planet
Topics Discussed This Week: 

Passenger in Oregon to Hawaii air incident faces charges (don’t fly crazy)
Man threatening Jews taken off Detroit-bound flight (or stupid)
Airlines ground two flights due to disruptive passengers
The Miami Herald is reporting that Carnival [...]

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This Week’s Guest: Sean Keener of BootsNAll.com
Topics Discussed This Week: 

the TSA backs down
Favorite destinations from 2009

Sean: New Zealand and Singapore
Chris: Prague in the Czech Republic and Oaxaca, Mexico
Jen: Charleston, South Carolina
Gary: Oman and Italy

New Media Cruise / Podcamp@Sea
Predictions for travel in 2010
Plans for 2010

Picks of the Week
Sean: coming soon… new writer’s [...]

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This Week’s Guests: Johnny Jet of JohnnyJet.com
Topics Discussed This Week: 

US security tightened after failed terror plot
‘Keep Your Hands Where We Can See Them,’ Demands New TSA Flight Rules
Full text of my subpoena from the Department of Homeland Security
TSA plays hardball with airline blogger over security directive

Picks of the Week

Jen: Travel Resolutions for [...]

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This Week’s Guests: Debbie Dubrow of Deliciousbaby.com
Topics Discussed this week:

Passenger creates big debate at American – I mean big!
Man Misses Funeral After Southwest Kicks Him Off
Passports With Purpose
True or False: Great Photography Sells Hotel Rooms

Picks of the Week:

Jen: Oyster.com Hotels reviews
Debbie: RoomAtlas.com
Chris: HotelVideoReviews.com
Gary: Padua, Italy

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This Week’s Guests: Nancy D. Brown, Johnny Jet, Rich Whitaker, Brett Rounsaville
A special episode recorded aboard the Crown Princess on the first Twitter Cruise. Topics discussed include the ethics of press trips, cruising, the environmental impact of cruise ships and the controversy the cruise sparked on Twitter.

I was interviewed this last week for Todd Lucier’s Internet Marketing for Tourism – Audio Podcasts: How audio travel stories influence travelers.
We talked about:

Who listens to travel podcasts?
What makes a good travel story?
How to find exotic travel experiences in your community
How to ask good questions
How are podcasts produced?
How to pitch a story for the [...]

There is no single answer to the question of where are the best places to travel on vacation. The first question to ask is not what place to go but instead what kind of traveler are you?
What Kind of Traveler Are You?

Are you a Phileas Fogg? Are you a world traveler who measures success by [...]